Every house has its story. What's yours?

Now that our children have grown-up some (8 and 11) and we're certainly not expecting any grandchildren in the near future, the sandbox I built so lovingly built 8 years ago had become a clunky eyesore in our backyard. We didn't want to drag it away and leave a square patch of soil in the yard and I didn't have anywhere to store for the next +15 years; as I cannot let go of things I have over-engineered.

Luckily, the wife came up with a brilliant idea of planting a little olive tree in the center and surrounding it with a few Mediterranean-type plants and flowers like lavender.    » read more »

Between the heat wave we experienced a couple of weeks ago and the rain of this past week, our fruit plants and trees have really popped.    » read more »